10 years on from the Arab Spring, we must look back on what happened and why. The Arab Spring was a pro-democracy uprising that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). By mid-2012 most of the actions against governments had faded, many achieved little and were met by severe violence and curbs on […]
Today, Southall is emblematic of the virtues of multicultural Britain, with its lively intermingling of different cultures and traditions which help to promote intercultural and interfaith harmony. With its predominant South Asian community, it has often been dubbed the ‘mini-Punjab,’ in addition to the local train station displaying key information in Punjabi. However, this was […]
This article is a contribution from our recent collaboration with pupils at Cedar Mount Academy. Manchester city is known for being culturally diverse. There are different reasons as to the source of Manchester’s diversity. Firstly, Manchester became diverse due to its extensive history of migration from different parts of Europe and the world. Secondly, Manchester […]
Oftentimes provincialism prevents one from diligently searching for clues to past, present, and future human behaviour. Resistance and revolts are not exclusive to the most recent past; instead, over 2,300 years ago they were being documented…
On the 27th April, 1994, non-white South Africans cast a vote for the first time ever to determine the first post-apartheid president. Before this, they had endured 46 years of one of the most extreme systems of racial segregation of the 20th century. In 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party, an Afrikaans political party were victorious […]
While advertising originally evolved to answer the needs of industry, it is now a key element of the political world too. Thom Iddon looks at how political leaders have used advertising. Megan Dina Garlick interviews Lecturer of Modern European History, Dr Christian Goeschel. Ned Rodger writes a potted history of the March on Rome and […]
The tale of the two lovers, Heloise and Abelard, and their scandalous affair has incited an exodus of literature, music and art. Hailing from 12th century Paris, both Heloise and Abelard were highly gifted intellectuals, well versed in philosophy and theology. Heloise was a pupil of Abelard who was twenty years her senior, she is […]
The Māori are the native Polynesian people of New Zealand. The ancestors of the Māori originated from south-east Asia. Some historians trace these early settlers as migrating from today’s China. However, more commonly, the indigenous Māori are believed to have come from Haiwaiki, an island or group of islands in Polynesia in the South Pacific […]
At the age of ninety five, the outspoken Duke of Edinburgh has been at the heart of the British Royal Family for the last seventy years, standing at the Queen’s side as her consort and her life partner. Although he has often been embroiled in scandal and his family has had every facet of their […]
Google Images Hi from the History Society committee! We hope everything is going well for everyone as we come to the middle of semester one. The pub quiz that happened on Tuesday 14th October at 256 was a massive success! It was the perfect opportunity for everyone to get to know each other better – […]
Robin Hood is a well-known folklore classic, famous for ‘robbing from the rich and giving to the poor’. There are however, many arguments suggesting that he was actually a psychopathic murderer and the romanticism era twisted him to be a well-loved fairy tale character. When picturing Robin Hood, very often the image which springs to […]
I was lucky enough to interview the History department’s most electric member: DrYangwen Zheng. Joining the university and effectively starting its Chinese history curriculum, she has been on an academic warpath since 1995. From studying at Oberlin College and Cambridge, then teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the National University of Singapore before finally […]
OVERVIEW: The Peterloo Massacre was the escalation of public friction following the Napoleaonic Wars. The massacre was given the name ‘Peterloo’ in an ironic comparison to the Battle of Waterloo, intended to mock the soldiers who attacked unarmed civilians. It occurred during a period of immense political tension and mass protests, where fewer than 2% […]
In Russia, memories of Stalinist repressions and the Gulag are contentious topics. Despite over 20 million people perishing as a result of Stalin’s purges and many more being forced into labour camps in Siberia, the Kremlin, through propaganda and censorship, has consistently attempted to sanitise its dark history, which it portrays as a necessary measure […]